Lampista Quotes & Sayings

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. — Ovid

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best. — George Carlin

There is no dignity in death in battle. Mostly that is a splashing about of human meat and fluid, and the result is filthy, but there is a great and almost sweet dignity in the sorrow, the helpless, the hopeless sorrow, that comes down over a family with the telegram. Nothing to say, nothing to do, and only one hope - I hope he didn't suffer - and what a forlorn and last-choice hope that is. — John Steinbeck

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting. — Colin Quinn

I like to do the splits onstage. — Gavin DeGraw

Never act in fear nor lose hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Argument against free will defence: There are some who, while no less free than others, would never knowingly harm another person, and it is surely conceivable that everyone should have been like that. — Unknown

It is in the light of the unparalleled presumption of respect for religion* that I make my own disclaimer for this book. I shall not go out of my way to offend, but nor shall I don kid gloves to handle religion any more gently than I would handle anything else. — Richard Dawkins

Generally it must be stated that realpolitik has been better at dividing than at ruling. Take it as a whole since Kissinger called on the Shah in 1972, and see what the harvest has been. — Christopher Hitchens

Apparently "London" gave out my address! that's what they're saying ... not just London, though! Brazzaville, too! ... and said that I'm a dirty pornographer ... a letch besides being the most despicable traitor of the century! ... I'd make a urinal blush! that what we need is to cleanse France and the French language of this smut-writing, demoralizing, grammaclast who's sullying our sacred homeland and its literary heritage! — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank. — Ben Bernanke

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live. — Tullian Tchividjian

It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr